Divider for mowing or reaping machines.



No. 675,| 94. Patented May 28, IBM.

J. M. CLARK. DIVIDER FO R MO-WING 0R REAPING MACHINES.

(Application filed Oct. 18, 1900.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. CLARK, OF RATHBONE, MISSOURI.

DIVIDER FOR MOWING OR REAPING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 675,194, dated May 28,] 901. Application filed October 18, 1900. Serial No. 33.433. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN M. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rathbone, in the county of Phelps and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Divider for Mowing or Reaping Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for dividing the grass or grain at the end of the cutter-bar; and the object is to provide a simple device for effectually dividing either short or long standing or fallen and tangled grass or grain without manually adjusting the device for varying heights.

I will describe a divider for mowing or reaping machines embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a divider embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an inside elevation thereof, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates the machine finger-bar,to which the divider-board 6 is attached in the usual manner. Extended rearward and at an upward incline from the inner side of the divider-board is a dividerarm 7, and arranged above this divider-arm 7 is a supplemental divider-arm 8. This supplemental divider-arm is longitudinally curved inward and extends at an upward angle relatively to the arm 7, thus having a graduallyincreasing height to engage with diderent heights of grass or grain. The two dividerarms have their ends inserted in sockets formed in a plate 9, attached to the board 6.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination with a divider-board of a mowing-machine, and an upwardly and rearwardly inclined straight divider-arm secured to said board, of an auxiliary divider-arm secured to the board above the first-named arm, the said auxiliary arm being curved longitu dinally upwardly and inwardly relatively to the said first-named arm, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. CLARK.

Witnesses:

FRANK SCHNEIDER, G. H. 00X. 

